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OpenAI's 722-paper math dump splits mathematicians, forces retractionsTechCrunch reports OpenAI's math solutions fall short of field standards
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A report examined quality problems in the released proofs, prompting accusations online that the model had cut corners to produce the volume of results.
“Apparently Ai cut corners?”
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first by Business Standard, 7d ago · also Indian Express
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- OpenAI releases 372 groups of math results from unreleased frontier AI model Indian Express · 7d ago
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first by TechCrunch, 5d ago
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first by Semafor, 6d ago
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They’ve just withdrawn three of the papers: * Algebraicity of Weil classes on split abelian eightfolds * Algebraicity of Kuga–Satake Correspondences for K3 Surfaces * The rational Hodge conjecture for products of K3 surfaces https:// github.com/openai/math/blob/ma in/history.md
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> "Math 2.0" will need to decenter the role of raw problem solving and value mathematical progress more holistically - for instance by elevating the role of exposition, but also that of community building and opening up new directions of studyIt is interesting that AI is not yet superhuman at exposition, or at least exposition that can be…
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Ah, yes, that's definitely what happened in every one of these 700 new results, and we should just ignore what the literal mathematician OpenAI has been accused of stealing from said regarding their Navier-Stokes solution. EDIT: For clarity, Tristan Buckmaster, the mathematician that originally accused OpenAI of stealing his work on the…
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"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." https://www. ahmath.org/statements # mathematics # science
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Studies have figured out how many 'concepts' or 'chunks' of information a typical human brain can hold in working memory. The famous 7±2 is a common way this is expressed. This research has been disputed and further nuanced (I know, I know, replication crisis...), but for the sake of argument, assume that there is some cognitive limit to how much…
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Sophia Kovalevsky Actually did say Math was like poetry. A mathematician's apology by hardee talks a lot about math as an aesthetic endeavor. And, btw, universities aren't paying some crazy amount to mathematicians. They do get paid more, and yes, a lot of that is because of some perceived belief math can have more application. I think it would be…
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Is this a breakthrough moment in mathematical history? OpenAI has claimed its secret AI model solved over 300 hundred unsolved math problems with just one prompt. The experts aren't so sure it did. https:// flip.it/GWqTD9 # OpenAI # Mathematics
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There is no business model for a company like OpenAI to solve math problems. Dijkstra pointed that out already a long time ago:„In many of his more witty essays, Dijkstra described a fictional company of which he served as chairman. The company was called Mathematics, Inc., a company that he imagined having commercialized the production of…
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Sure, if your sources are “tiktok told me its slop”, but people not trying to best engagement bait aren’t saying this at all. The only people I’ve seen even coming close to saying this are extremely aggressive people on Reddit and people who just feel like grifters, while it’s very easy to look around and see mathematicians excited about it all…
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https:// science.slashdot.org/story/26/ 10/07/1653233/openai-unleashes-hundreds-more-math-results-upon-a-field-already-in-shock is oai doing to math what anthropic did to security? flood the zone with authentic-looking results that are either all false positives or dont actually work or are made up nonsense?
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I'm a lot more skeptical. I'm not a mathematician, but from my use of LLMs a very clear pattern of what they are good and bad at has emerged. They are extremely good at combining large amounts of information, and it seems this is what the current AI results in mathematics are. There are so many subfieleds of math with ties to each other, so many…
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Mathematicians must know that AI will in the next 5 years probably be solving everything with huge well laid out explanations and auto generated textbooks explaining it. There’s no way they didn’t see that coming even years ago. How can any of them be surprised today?
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OpenAI’s Math Results Lead to a Reckoning for Academia https://www. bloomberg.com/news/newsletters /2026-10-08/openai-s-math-advances-spark-a-reckoning-for-academia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into Bloomberg Television @ bloomberg-television-bloomberg
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The authors of the proof are invited to give many talks, and meet with other experts in the area. Workshops are set up to discuss the proof, as well as other recent developments. problems are being solved autonomously by AI prompters who have no interest in the broader field itself once their initial target is "solved", and do not understand the…
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real fluids are made of atoms, not continuous fields And atoms are made of continuous fields if you follow certain theoretical physics rabbitholes..
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OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab. https:// techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/open ais-math-solutions-arent-meeting-the-fields-standards-yet/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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I kind of see their point.For thousands of years mathematics had this aura of being at the pinnacle of human thought and was one of the things that separated us from other species. People like Euler, Gauss, Euclid, Hilbert, Erdos had this aura about that them that they were on the noblest of pursuits - trying to solve problems that had no…
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I am curious if there are any applied math problems that are open or it has solved. Definitely prefer they go after those in the medical field
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In other news, the Association of Horse Managers is admonishing people who use automobiles without proper permission from the AHM. "AHM Statement on OpenAI’s October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents":
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> If you are an engineer, how often has an LLM told you (without you explicitly prompting for it): Wait, what you are doing here doesn't really make sense, there exists a much more elegant abstraction that nobody has thought of, let's remove all that code, let's tackle the problem in a different way by thinking from first principles. Pretty much…
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Yes it can. Just ask it to create a completely new original concept for you that has never been seen before and it will.
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OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers L: https:// github.com/openai/math/blob/ma in/history.md C: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5 0003107 posted on 2026.10.08 at 04:08:37 (c=0, p=5)
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There are 2 strong points buried between the snark: that the AI math advisory group, which OpenAI announced working with just 2 1/2 weeks ago, is against using internal models to solve open problems (per their general guidelines[0]); and that this mode of dumping results before having a friendly formulation doesn't center human understanding.IMO…
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You realize “ai detectors” are just magic 8 balls, right? The only good ai detection is the EU watermarking stuff.
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